Portman Building Quotes & Sayings

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. — John Portman

Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience. — John C. Portman Jr.

[J]ust from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? ... Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families. — Barack Obama

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. — Lord Byron

Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself. — Bill Courtney

Well, strangeness was hard to think about. Wonder grazes you like a bullet; it zips by and is gone, and all you really perceive is the zing as it goes past, or maybe the pain if it comes too close. It does no good to search for whatever it was, for it never lodges anywhere you can get a good look at it. The truly strange has no hooks of familiarity that one can catch hold of. — Sheri S. Tepper

But it's exhausting to keep tabs on how much someone is feeling for you. It can make you forget that they feel too. — Leslie Jamison

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. — Guy Verhofstadt

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends. — William Penn

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings. — Tracie Miles

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun. — Natalie Portman

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates. — John Shelby Spong